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Marisol Navarro-Miranda
Master’s student at Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), Unidad Irapuato. Microbial Ecology: Bacterial adaptations to extreme environments and Competitive interactions within environmental isolates | Bioinformatics: Comparative genomics and Complex network analysis | Molecular Biology and Microbiology techniques: DNA extraction, PCR, Gel electrophoresis, Microbial cell cultures, Growth kinetics, and Bacterial interaction experiments.
Education
M.Sc., Integrative Biology
Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), Irapuato
Guanajuato, Mexico
current - 2021
- Ph.D. Gabriela Olmedo-Álvarez and Ph.D. Maribel Hernández-Rosales
- Thesis: Understanding the genomic basis of antagonistic pairwise interactions in microbial communities
- Grade: 9.5/10.
B.Sc., Biology
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Facultad de Ciencias
Mexico City, Mexico
2019 - 2014
- Ph.D. Manuel García-Ulloa Gámiz and Ph.D. Valeria Souza Saldivar
- Thesis: Pangenomic characterization of the bacterial genus Virgibacillus associated with saline habitats
- Grade: 8.5/10.
Research Experience
Research Internship (Short-term)
Bioinformatics and Agrogenomics Group, Franco-Argentine International Centre for Information and Systems Sciences (CIFASIS), CONICET
Rosario, Argentina
2023
- Ph.D. Elizabeth Tapia-Centro and Ph.D. Flavio Spetale
- Project: Machine Learning methods for the prediction of microbial competitive interactions
- Description: Machine learning methos in R
National Research Assistant Level III, CONACYT
Laboratory of Molecular and Experimental Evolution, Institute of Ecology, UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2020 - 2019
- Ph.D. Valeria Souza Saldivar
- Project: Describing and explaining the permanence of ancestral marine lineages of microbial mats in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila
- Description: Fieldwork sampling, mesocosm experiments, and analyze (16S rRNA) metabarcoding data.
Research Internship (Long-term)
University Unit of Massive Throughput Sequencing and Bioinformatics (UUSMB), Institute of Biotechnology (IBt), UNAM
Morelos, Mexico
2017 - 2016
- M.Sc. Verónica Jiménez-Jacinto
- Project: Sequencing strategy and genomic analysis of the marine parasite Cymothoa exigua
- Description: Sequencing strategies for non-model organisms, Programming: Perl, Python, R and Bash, and use of specialized software for NGS data.
Research Internship (Long-term)
Department of Chemical Evolution, Institute of Nuclear Sciences (ICN), UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2016 - 2015
- Ph.D. Alejandro Heredia Barbero
- Project: Adsorption of histidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation in the presence of Aragonite (CaCO3): An experimental model for prebiotic chemistry
- Description: UV-VIS spectroscopy analysis, data analysis with Origin Lab, Programming: R, Python, and development of a new methodological strategy for amino acids irradiation.
Research Internship (Short-term)
Department of Plasma Physics, Laboratory of Plasma Chemistry and Planetary Studies, Institute of Nuclear Sciences (ICN), UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2015
- Ph.D. Rafael Navarro González
- Project: Effect of ionizing radiation on calcium sulfates. Possible applications on the surface of Mars
Research Internship (Short-term)
Genotoxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis Group, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (CCA), UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2014
- Ph.D. María Elena Calderón Segura
- Project: Genotoxicological analysis of a keto-enol pesticide in human peripheral lymphocytes by micronucleus assay
Research Internship (Long-term)
Jóvenes Hacia la Investigación in collaboration with the Botanical Garden and Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory of the Biology Institute (IB), UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2014 - 2013
- Ph.D. Víctor Manuel Chávez Ávila and Ph.D. Paulina Heredia Guzmán
- Project: In vitro culture of Prosthechea vitellina (Orchidaceae)
Teaching Experience
Workshop: Bacterial Genome Mining
Assistant in the International Workshop of Bioinformatics (TIB 2024)
Virtual, International
2024
- Main instructors: Sélem-Mojica N Teacher assitant: Navarro-Miranda M, Lovaco-Flores JA, Mejía-Ponce PM, González-Serrano FM
- The Carpentries
- Link: https://czirion.github.io/pangenomics-workshop/
Workshop: Bioinformatics for biodata analysis using Machine-Learning and network approaches
XIII Argentine Congress of Bioinformatics and Compuational Biology (XIII CAB2C) and XIII International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Bioinformatics (XIII SolBio)
Rosario, Argentina
2023
- Main instructors: De Las Rivas J (CSIC-USAL-IBSAL, Spain), Hernandez-Rosales M (CINVESTAV, Mexico), Spetale F (CIFASIS- CONICET-UNR, Argentina), Navarro-Miranda M (CINVESTAV, Mexico), Alonso N (CSIC-USAL-IBSAL, Spain)
- Red Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial para Big BioData (RIABIO) and ATGenomics
- Link: https://github.com/biocomplexnet/NetworkAnalysis
Workshop: Pangenome Analysis in Prokaryotes
2nd Summer Retreat on Bioinformatics and Complex Networks 2023
Guanajuato, Mexico
2023
- Main instructors: Mejía-Ponce PM, Navarro-Miranda M
- The Carpentries
- Link: https://czirion.github.io/pangenomics-workshop/
Workshop: Analysis of biological and biomedical transcriptomic data using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning methods (ML) methods with R
ISCB-Latin America, SoIBio and BioNet MX International Conference on Bioinformatics
Querétaro, Mexico
2022
- Main instructors: De Las Rivas J (CSIC-USAL-IBSAL, Spain), Hernandez-Rosales M (CINVESTAV, Mexico), De Las Rosa E (CSIC-USAL-IBSAL, Spain), Spetale F (CIFASIS- CONICET-UNR, Argentina), Navarro-Miranda M (CINVESTAV, Mexico)
- Red Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial para Big BioData (RIABIO)
Workshop: Introduction to python
1st Summer Retreat on Bioinformatics and Complex Networks
Michoacán, Mexico
2022
- Main instructors: Ramírez-Rafael JA, Navarro-Miranda M
- Bioinformatics and Complex Networks Group, CINVESTAV and ATGenomics
Workshop: Exploring Biological Data with Pandas
2nd Women in Bioinformatics & Data Science LA Conference (WBDSLA)
Virtual event, International
2021
- Main instructors: Navarro-Miranda M, Maya O, Flores V, Mendoza-Monzoy DL
- ATGenomics
Workshop: RStudio Beginners Tour
RLadies Cuernavaca
Virtual event, Morelos, Mexico
2021
- Main instructors: Navarro-Miranda M
- Link: https://github.com/RLadiesCuerna/meetup_2020_sep
Term course: Computational Genomics Laboratory Assistant
Facultad de Ciencias, Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Computación, UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2021 - 2020
- Main instructors: Hernández-López S, Hernández D, Navarro-Miranda M
- Description: Conducting molecular biology lectures, leading practical sessions on Bash command line and Python for NGS data analysis, organizing seminars with guest speakers on genomics applications, and supervising final projects
- Link: https://sites.google.com/site/genomicaciencias/
Term course: Bioinformatics Practical Workshop
Graduate program in Biological Sciences, UNAM
Virtual event, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 - 2020
- Main instructors: Mastretta-Yanez A, Truong C, Navarro-Miranda M
- Description: Conducting practical lectures on bioinformatics, leading practical sessions on R, organizing seminars with guest speakers, and evaluating final projects
- Link: https://github.com/AliciaMstt/TallerBioinf
Workshop: Introduction to Bioinformatics
Laboratory of Molecular and Experimental Evolution, Institute of Ecology, UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2019
- Main instructors: García-Ulloa Gámiz M, Viladomat-Jasso M, Sánchez-Pérez J, Navarro-Miranda M
- Laboratory of Molecular and Experimental Evolution, UNAM
- Link: https://github.com/Mariette-VJ/Introduccion_a_la_Bioinformatica
Publications
Understanding the genomic basis of antagonistic pairwise interactions in microbial communities
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2024
- Navarro-Miranda M, Higareda-Alvear VM, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G. Understanding the genomic basis of antagonistic pairwise interactions in microbial communities (work in progress)
Meeting the Challenge of Genomic Analysis: A Collaboratively Developed Workshop for Pangenomics and Topological Data Analysis
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2024
- Contreras-Peruyero H, Guerrero-Flores S, Zirión-Martínez C, M. Mejía-Ponce PM, Navarro-Miranda M, Lovaco-Flores JA, Ibarra-Rodríguez JM, Pashkov A, Licona-Cassani C, Sélem-Mojica N. Meeting the Challenge of Genomic Analysis: A Collaboratively Developed Workshop for Pangenomics and Topological Data Analysis. Bioinformatics Advances (recommended publication with minor revisions)
Diversity of an uncommon elastic hypersaline microbial mat along a small-scale transect
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2022
- Espinosa-Asuar L, Monroy-Guzmán C, Madrigal-Trejo D, Navarro-Miranda M, Sánchez-Pérez J, Buenrostro Muñoz J, Villar J, Cifuentes Camargo JF, Kalambokidis M, Esquivel-Hernandez DA, Viladomat Jasso M, Escalante AE, Velez P, Figueroa M, Martinez-Cardenas A, Ramirez-Barahona S, Gasca-Pineda J, Eguiarte LE, Souza V. Diversity of an uncommon elastic hypersaline microbial mat along a small-scale transect. PeerJ. 2022 Jun 20;10:e13579. doi: 10.7717/peerj.13579. PMID: 35757167; PMCID: PMC9220918
Recent Differentiation of Aquatic Bacterial Communities in a Hydrological System in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, After a Natural Perturbation
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2022
- García-Ulloa M 2nd, Souza V, Esquivel-Hernández DA, Sánchez-Pérez J, Espinosa-Asuar L, Viladomat M, Marroquín-Rodríguez M, Navarro-Miranda M, Ruiz-Padilla J, Monroy-Guzmán C, Madrigal-Trejo D, Rosas-Barrera M, Vázquez-Rosas-Landa M, Eguiarte LE. Recent Differentiation of Aquatic Bacterial Communities in a Hydrological System in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, After a Natural Perturbation. Front Microbiol. 2022 Apr 28;13:825167. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.825167. PMID: 35572686; PMCID: PMC9097865
The Importance of the Rare Biosphere for Astrobiological Studies and the Diversification and Resilience of Life on Earth
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2020
- Sánchez-Pérez, J., Villar, J. D., Alvarez-López, N., Águila, B., Buenrostro, J., Chino-Palomo, L. J., Navarro-Miranda, M, Cifuentes, J.F., Cruz-Cruz, A.G., Vega-Baray, B., Viladomat, M., Kalambokidis, M., Eguiarte, L.E., Souza, V. (2020). The Importance of the Rare Biosphere for Astrobiological Studies and the Diversification and Resilience of Life on Earth. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-46087-7_6
Honors and awards
Secretary
International Society for Computational Biology - Student Council, Regional Student Group - Mexico ( ISCB-SC, RSG-Mexico)
International
current - 2023
- President: Lovaco-Flores JA (CINVESTAV), Secretary: Navarro-Miranda M (CINVESTAV), Faculty advisors: Sélem-Mojica N. (UNAM-CCM), Vazquez-Rosas-Landa M (UNAM-ICML)
- Description: As Secretary of RSG-Mexico, I help organizing monthly virtual Journal Clubs on Computational Biology, draft funding proposals, and support national workshops as well as the Mexican team for the annual CAMDA challenge (Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis Conference). Additionally, we promote and participate in the Wikipedia/Wikidata Competition and other events coordinated by the ISCB Student Council globally
Member
Red Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial para Big Biodata (RiaBio)
International
current - 2021
- President: Tapia-Centro E, Internacional Franco-argentino de Ciencias de la Información y de Sistemas (CIFASIS-CONICET)
- Description: As a member of the Red Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial para Big Biodata (RiaBio), I actively engage in annual conferences and play a key role in organizing and leading workshops at international events
Member
CINVESTAV Irapuato Student Council (CECIG)
Guanajuato, Mexico
2024 - 2021
- Description: As a member of the CINVESTAV Irapuato Student Council (CECIG), we serve as a liaison between the student community and the institution’s leadership, ensuring that student interests are effectively communicated. We also participate in meetings with the coordinators of both graduate programs and organize events that foster student integration and community building
Best Oral Presentation Award at the “XIII Argentine Congress of Bioinformatics and Compuational Biology (XIII CAB2C) and XIII International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Bioinformatics (XIII SolBio)”
Red Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial para Big BioData (RIABIO), Asociación Argentina de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional, Sociedad Iberoamericana de Bioinformática (SoIBio)
Rosario, Argentina
2023
- Navarro-Miranda M, Higareda-Alvear VM, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- Modeling Microbial Competitive Interactions using Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (BGCs) and networks Features
2nd place at the Contest of Scientific Posters at the “III International Symposium of Bioinformatics”
Secretaría de Innovación, Ciencia y Tecnología del Estado de Morelos, Mexico
Morelos, Mexico
2018
- Navarro-Miranda M, Grande R, Jiménez-Jacinto V, Verleyen J, Estrada K, Vega-Alvarado L, Llera-Herrera R, Yáñez-Rivera B, Sánchez-Flores A
- Sequencing strategy and genomic analysis of the marine parasite Cymothoa exigua
3rd place at the Contest of Scientific Posters at the “XIX Short-stay Scientific Exhibition”
UNAM DGDC Program “Jóvenes Hacia la Investigación” (JHI)
Mexico City, Mexico
2014
- Navarro-Miranda M, Calderón-Segura ME
- Genotoxicological analysis of a keto-enol pesticide in human peripheral lymphocytes by micronucleus assay
Talks and Posters
Bioinformatics Week 2024 organized by the Institute of Neurobiology and the National Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Visualization (LAVIS)
Talk (* Presenter)
Queretaro, Mexico
2024
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Higareda-Alvear VM, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- Modeling Microbial Competitive Interactions using Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (BGCs) and Network Features
IV CONGRESS of the Student Section of the Bachelor’s Degree in Experimental Biology (SELBE) of the Division of Natural and Exact Sciences of the University of Guanajuato
Talk (* Presenter)
Virtual event, Guanajuato, Mexico
2024
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Higareda-Alvear VM, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- Understanding the genomic basis of competitive interactions in microbial communities
32nd Conference on Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology (ISMB)
Poster (*Presenter)
Montreal, Canada
2024
- Contreras-Peruyero H, Guerrero-Flores S, Zirión-Martínez C, M. Mejía-Ponce PM, Navarro-Miranda M, Lovaco-Flores JA, Ibarra-Rodríguez JM, Pashkov A, Licona-Cassani C, Sélem-Mojica N*****
- Multidisciplinary Workshop on Pangenomics and Topological Data Analysis
XIII Argentine Congress of Bioinformatics and Compuational Biology (XIII CAB2C) y XIII International Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Bioinformatics (XIII SolBio)
Talk (* Presenter)
Rosario, Argentina
2023
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Higareda-Alvear VM, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- Modeling Microbial Competitive Interactions using Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (BGCs) and Networks Features
International theoretical-practical course on metagenomic analysis organized by the Toribio Rodríguez University of Mendoza (UNTRM), Livestock and Biotechnology Research Institute (IGBI) and the Faculty of Zootechnical Engineering, Agribusiness and Biotechnology
Talk (* Presenter)
Virtual event, Peru
2023
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- Microbial ’Omics of environmental samples from Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila
12th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications
Poster (*Presenter)
Menton Riviera, France
2023
- Navarro-Miranda M, Barceló-Antemate D, Hernández-Rosales M*****, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- Interaction networks of a complex bacterial community revealed that different species possess distinct ecological roles but one species concentrates antagonism capacity
VII Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Bacteria, Mexican Society of Biochemistry A.C.
Poster (*Presenter)
Guanajuato, Mexico
2023
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Higareda-Alvear VM, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- The Pangenome Puzzle: Decoding Ecological Roles and Taxonomic Affiliation in Microbial Community Competitive Interactions
ISCB-Latin America, SoIBio and BioNet MX International Conference on Bioinformatics
Talk (* Presenter)
Querétaro, México
2022
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Higareda-Alvear VM, Ramírez-Sánchez O, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- Genomic profiling of bacteria for the prediction of synthetic community assembly under antagonistic interactions
Connections Across Borders
Poster (*Presenter)
Mexico City, Mexico
2022
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Hernández-Rosales M, Olmedo-Álvarez G
- Genomic profiling of potential synthetic communities from the phylum Bacillota
VI Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Bacteria and XLI National Congress of Microbiology
Poster (*Presenter)
Oaxaca, Mexico
2019
- Navarro-Miranda M*, García-Ulloa Gámiz M, Viladomat-Jasso M, Souza V
- Characterization of local adaptation in the genus Virgibacillus through pangenomic analysis
III International Symposium of Bioinformatics
Poster (*Presenter)
Morelos, Mexico
2018
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Grande R, Jiménez-Jacinto V, Verleyen J, Estrada K, Vega-Alvarado L, Llera-Herrera R, Yáñez-Rivera B, Sánchez-Flores A
- Sequencing strategy and genomic analysis of the marine parasite Cymothoa exigua
International Symposium Extreme Ecosystems & Extremophile Organisms: Biodiversity, Physiology, Biochemistry & Biotechnology
Poster (*Presenter)
Morelos, Mexico
2017
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Garibay HI, Heredia A, Negrón-Mendoza A
- Adsorption of histidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation in the presence of aragonite (CaCO3): An experimental model for prebiotic chemistry
Congreso Preparatoriano de las Humanidades y XVIII Congreso Preparatoriano de las Ciencias, ENP 2 “Erasmo Castellanos”
Talk (* Presenter)
Mexico City, Mexico
2014
- Navarro-Miranda M*, et al.
- In vitro propagation of Prosthechea vitellina
XIX Short-stay Scientific Exhibition
Poster (*Presenter)
Mexico City, Mexico
2014
- Navarro-Miranda M*, Calderón-Segura ME
- Genotoxicological analysis of a keto-enol pesticide in human peripheral lymphocytes by micronucleus assay
Courses
Data Science using R: Machine Learning
Ramirez-Sánchez O
Virtual event
2024
- Ramirez-Sánchez O
Pangenomics and Microbial Phylogenomics
The National Bioinformatics Node (NNB-CCG) and the Community of Software Developers in Bioinformatics (CDSB)
Morelos, Mexico
2022
- Vinuesa Fleischmann P
Microbiome 16S
ATGenomics
Virtual event
2020
- Maya O
Reconstruction of genomes from data type Whole Metagenome Shotgun and comparative genomics
Research Consortium of the Gulf of Mexico (CIGoM), Institute of Biotechnology (IBt), UNAM
Morelos, Mexico
2018
- Godoy-Lozano E, Escobar-Zepeda A
Bioinformatics Tools UNIX, AWK, R, Python and Comprehensive course for the analysis of genomic and transcriptomic data
University Unit of Massive Throughput Sequencing and Bioinformatics (UUSMB), Institute of Biotechnology (IBt), UNAM
Morelos, Mexico
2018
- Grande R, Jiménez-Jacinto V, Verleyen J, Estrada K, Vega-Alvarado L, Sánchez-Flores A
T1-NGS-E NGS: Genome Assembly and Annotation
National Node of Bioinformatics (NNB-UNAM) and the Ibero-American Society of Bioinformatics (SolBio), Center of Genomic Sciences (CCG, UNAM)
Morelos, Mexico
2017
- Lozano Aguirre Beltrán LF
Science Communication
Web developer Intern
C3 Idea
Guanajuato, Mexico
2024
- Fontove F, Ibarra-Rodríguez JM
- Description: Development of web applications for the Government of Mexico City’s project Museo Virtual de Matemáticas.
Head of Organizing Comitte
Bioinformatics and Complex Networks Laboratory, Department of Genetic Engineering, CINVESTAV
Guanajuato, Mexico
2023
- 2nd Summer Retreat on Bioinformatics and Complex Networks
- Description: Organize conference activities, including contacting speakers, planning events such as talks and recreational activities, writing grants to secure funding for the event, managing logistics for accommodations and meals and arrivals, organizing and conducting workshops, and invitation letters / certificates.
- Link: https://biocomplexnet.github.io/
Talk and Workshop
Workshop “Ciencia Viva” CINVESTAV irapuato
Guanajuato, Mexico
2023 - 2021
- Ph.D. Gabriela Olmedo-Álvarez and Ph.D. Maribel Hernández-Rosales
Talk and Workshop
Workshop “Ciencia Viva” Cuatro Ciénegas CBTA 22, CINVESTAV
Coahuila, Mexico
2023 - 2021
- Ph.D. Gabriela Olmedo-Álvarez and Ph.D. Maribel Hernández-Rosales
Member of Organizing Comitte
Bioinformatics and Complex Networks Laboratory, Department of Genetic Engineering, CINVESTAV
Michoacán, Mexico
2022
- 1st Summer Retreat on Bioinformatics and Complex Networks
Volunteer
Night of the Stars, UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2019
- Ph.D. Antígona Segura (ICN) and Ph.D. Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew (IA)
- Star Visionaries: Women in Astrophysics and Astronomy
Volunteer
Third Day of Open Doors of the Institute of Biotechnology (IBt), UNAM
Morelos, Mexico
2018
- Grande R, Jiménez-Jacinto V, Verleyen J, Estrada K, Vega-Alvarado L, Sánchez-Flores A
- The Taco Metagenome